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Welcome to my channel dedicated to uncovering the hidden treasures of vintage View Master Reels from the 1940s and 1950s. Join me as I crisscross the country in search of the original pictures, exploring exotic places frozen in time.
In this channel I travel to all kinds of locations hunting down the original pictures from vintage View Master Reels. View Master Reels were 3D travel photos taken in the 40s and 50s of exotic places. I’m curious to see what these places look like today.
Each episode features a captivating journey into the past and the present. I reveal the vintage 3D travel photos and provide an intriguing look at how these places have changed over the years.
Uncover the fascinating historical secrets and stories behind each location we visit. From St. Augustine to Hollywood, I'm always amazed at the hidden gems I discover.
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If you follow the Masonic lines of each opposing triangles you will eventually come to the square at the end of the compass. Seen from directly overhead the entirety of our capital is a giant Masonic altar.
This is the first video of yours I’ve ever seen, just spent the weekend in the Keys and stumbled upon this. Excellent work, man. The subject matter is really interesting, the visuals are helpful, you do a great job with the editing… I’m impressed, and I’m subscribing.
I live in Fairfax, VA and visited the National Mall some 10-15 times. Never knew about the Masonic Lodge, L'Enfant triangle or the Know Nothings. Amazing video, great work and you got yourelf a new subscriber
"If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is a part of a tree." - Michael Crichton .... Absolutely fascinating, thanks for your extreme attention to detail, I enjoyed it tremendously.
Excellent work as always, Dave. I had no idea there was so much intentional geometry behind the locations of these monuments. Really impressed by your graphical work as well, nicely done.
Thanks for another great video! Wow hearing about the giraffes really hit me. I remember the last time I visited Silver Springs was for their Christmas time holiday lights event. It doesn’t feel like very long ago, but then I realized it was in 2007! At that time there were 3 gentle giraffes. Wow the years really do fly by!
Thank you for the wonderful video. Old Florida families remember the land boom/bust! My great grandfather moved to central Florida in 1921 from England with his large family. He was upper middle class and bought a lot of acreage in land deals. Our family became paupers overnight. But they were able to retain the family home. At that time fish, citrus, and game were plentiful so they survived. Neighbors were friendly and helpful because everyone suffered together.
I used to go to St Pete a lot in the late 80s. They had some great venues for new wave and punk rock bands! Come to think of it the “Sea Vamps” would be a great name for an punk/alt rock band! 🤔
Wonderful! As a lifelong Floridian I have been to Weeki Wachee many times over the years. Mostly in the 1970s/early 80s when I was a boy. My grandpa had a camper van and I recall camping there on weekends. I seem to recall they had a very nice swimming pool. Thank you for your great videos! They bring back many happy memories.
that's the old steamer pier i got coins off the steamer from the tours coming to the island. i grew up on the island. the green building is the harbor masters off and the fish market. behind the yacht is the fuel dock. that been gone for many years gone by
Alas, your version of "Hannett's Joke" is only partly correct. The Santa Fe Ring ruled during the late Territorial period. They co-opted enough Democrats so that they can't be called a purely Republican group. By the 1920s, the Republicans had a progressive faction led by Bronson Cutting. Hannett got crossways with Cutting, helping Dillon to win. Hannett's new highway only went from Santa Rosa to Moriarty, setting up the possibility of realigning Rt. 66 as a long-term goal. But it took Clyde Tingley, first as Chairman of the Albuquerque City Commission, and then as Governor from 1935-38, to get the two links essential to realigning Rt. 66. The first one was the Laguna cutoff, from Albuquerque west to Laguna Pueblo. (Rt. 66 had followed the Santa Fe Railway right of way down to Los Lunas and then west to Laguna.) The second was bringing the trail from Albuquerque to Tijeras up to highway standards, and then on to Moriarty. The official realignment happened in 1937, shortening the passage across New Mexico by 107 miles and depriving Santa Fe of that traffic. Governor Dillon, when seeing the new highway from Santa Rosa to Moriarty, was so impressed with the highway crew that built the road that he kept them on as state employees. This is during the period when a change in party resulted in wholesale firings of the previous administration's employees and replacing them with your own party's workers. Also, the Alvarado Transportation Center does mimic many of the design elements of the Alvarado Hotel. js
I really enjoy the Gardens and I'm grateful that the city stepped in and saved it. So much of old Florida has been lost to "progress" and the endless subdivisions and condos. Losing this gem would've been a crime.
Quick trivia: The Sloppy Joe's Bar in which Hemmingway did most of his drinking is the bar that became, and still is, Captain Tony's. It's a short half block walk away on Greene St. Only for about the last year and a half or two years of his residence in KW did he drink at the "new" place. PS That parking garage they built at the airport is a travesty. It destroyed the fantastic view of walking out of the terminal and looking across A1A at the Atlantic.
Thank you, great video! Been in Miami for 32 years. Found some comments about the use of the term ‘Miami’ interesting. I always use the names Coral Gables, Hialeah, and Miami Shores when talking about these cities. I say South Beach for the south end, and Miami Beach for the rest. Will use Coconut Grove, Morningside, Brickell, Little Havana, etc for these neighborhoods. Also, South Dade (not South Miami-Dade!), even ‘Souwesera’ for the Sweetwater, Little Havana, Flagami etc. areas. Very inconsistent, but familiar. So I found the mention of ‘Miami’ for all of it odd. Then I talked to my best friend and roommate for seventeen years a question. He’s lived here since 1974, from Spain after leaving Cuba. I asked him about when he was visiting Washington DC recently. Did he (or would he have) referred to South Beach, Coral Gables, and Hialeah by their names, or just Miami, in conversation. He said ‘Miami’. I was a bit surprised. Guess I need to get out of town more often…
@@viewmastertravels5114 Interesting approach to local histories. I remember having Viewmasters back in the day, a fun way to travel the world before iphones and Yahoo!
Fantastic you and the view-master a brilliant collage, I almost made the biggest mistake of my life taking a wrong turn (or left turn as stated below as a kid watching bugs I use to laugh about it and what happened to me?), I call it albuslurque now🤣but at least I departed the cesspool known as Baltimore at 18 and humidity joining the Air Force well still did but had to do my air force at kirtland AFB out here and to this day easterners still think I'm in Mexico 😆or back to peddling groceries, I just got caught in this land of entrapment back in 1981 but it looked like your reels in 81, so now retired and soon as I pay off my cheaper than national average house price I'm still getting outta here with this crime rate etc but older and thinking everywhere is about the same now and unless they build more Dion's pizza across the usa I might be finished not a Hollywood movie in the making but I had my pleasure at some state parks and seeing many terrific rock concerts in the early 80's at Tingley Coliseum. But I'm subscribing I love your niche and presentation, keep up the good work sir. Your back area of remote drive through diverted rt 66 reminds me of Madrid and Cerrillos NM and also in the young guns movie 1988 and a little like Las Golondrinas. But I bet it's Carnuel. And it seems like you have coverage from various areas around the country but many from NM like its more a focused effort of your situational awareness. But spectacular. Anyway good heath and I believe you have a very good platform of sweet short educational videos that others seem to mess up. This channel (should) could be big.
Surely VM reel number 76, has to be one of the most ubiquitous of reels, showing up in so many lots and bringing little attention to itself. For those who have the privilege of viewing your comparison of past to present, and your detailed historical research (the portion where a group of women save this historical gem from the ignominy of becoming just another hotel, is killer) is amazing. As always, this historian is thankful for your great skill in using a VM reel as an impetus to learning.
Thanks again for watching, I suppose the ubiquitousness of the reel shows its importance as a topic, at least at the time. Although, as seems to be true for many view master reels, “why” it’s so important tends not to be communicated well.
We would be remiss to talk about UNM and not at least mention the lottery scholarship. We’re proud of it, we may be a poor small state, but our record on equity is a demonstration on integrity and awareness. The demographic break down in the round house is within a few percentage points of our demographic breakdown as a state. White is not the majority in New Mexico and our legislature reflects that. For the last 16 years we have had a female latino governor, unafraid to stand defiantly in a sea of red state neighbors and throw them the middle finger after Roe was overturned. I recently split from my partner of 16 years, drastically changing my recorded income last year. When I filed taxes the state sent my son an ebt card, we didn’t apply, but my income merited supporting him whether I got around to it or not. I destroyed it because it’s not an accurate reflection of my resources now although it was previously, I have super supportive family. The state issued it in my son’s name and he just turned eleven. They sent him a letter explaining he can use it for food and it will be replenished every month. I have never had to worry about medical insurance for my son. My pregnancy was difficult and we suffered financially, when I had him, they helped me do it in one day. I went in, was approved, and they back dated coverage from time of birth. School breakfast and lunch is not charged to parents. In the summer, in a small town I lived in the SE, they had food available to kids every day at every elementary and the park. The park is hamburgers and hot dogs, chips, veggies, fruit, drinks and a sugar snack. It’s on the river, it’s fun to go down there and picnic. In that same town the waterpark is subsidized by the city so the admission is only $5 per day. That’s far from the only activity subsidized for kids.
@@viewmastertravels5114 It’s iconic Albuquerque, it is great food, but it’s just part of us. Frontier is one of the Golden Pride locations, but I prefer the kiosk on Lomas.
Really enjoy your channel. You have such a nice calming voice and speak so well. Thank you for the high quality videos. Thanks for helping me learn and relax and of course, taking me back to my awesome viewmaster memories of my childhood ❤
Cimarron: a domesticated animal that runs away to the country and becomes feral. The Spanish, it seems, weren't very nice in choosing their words for natives of this country.
